everyone knew he was dead.. or, thought so.

Eren Yeager, the founding titan, died after the rumbling, while he was actually just hiding away from them. In the paradise island.

he never showed himself 'cause he knows the war would get started again, and he won't want that, since he doesn't have he's past titan powers.

now, he was just chilling in the forest he hides in, sitting against a tree while he was crave a piece of wood to make something out of it. Though, he didn't except you, a child, to come out of no where, looking at him. He could recognise you were young, and he expected you to ran away and reveal he was still alive, which gave him a panic, the peice of wood in his hands dropping on the ground.